After Covid did your taste ever come back like before? Been since December and still just about nothing taste right, bread-crackers-chips are the worst.

One of my friends caught it two years ago. He says everything still tastes like burnt corn.

My taste came back in about two months...

I have had it twice. Never lost my taste. My wife and daughter though, around two months and still not as good as before Covid.

My wife & I have had Covid 3x.

1st time was Feb. 2020 - Covid original issue. Did not lose our taste or smell.
2nd time was the Delta variant in Aug. 2021 (whole family got it - we felt BAD!). I completely lost my taste & smell. Taste started coming back around day 7 & it is back to normal now but took over a year. My smell is not back 100% - Tabasco sauce smells & tastes different than it used to.
3rd time was Feb. this year. My wife got a lot sicker than me - hers was stomach & she got so dehydrated she had to be hospitalized.

My wife got all the shots and I didn't, we both got it but I don't remember either of us losing our taste buds or sensing flavors
Thanks be to God

When it comes to flavors, a large chunk of your sense of taste is actually smell. If your sinuses are botched up, food will taste weird.

I’ve always had bad taste. Ask anyone.

Smelling is a big part of taste.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...tortions-after-COVID-19-shows-study.aspx

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"Smell training involves sniffing at least four different odors twice a day every day for several months.
It has emerged as a simple and side-effect free treatment option for various causes of smell loss.

"It aims to help recovery based on neuroplasticity - the brain's ability to reorganise itself to compensate for a change or injury.
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The research team worked with 143 participants who had experienced a loss or change in their sense of smell due to post viral infection.

The participants received a variety of smell training kits - consisting of different odors, including
eucalyptus, lemon, rose, cinnamon, chocolate, coffee, lavender, honey, strawberry and thyme.

The participants were tested for how well they could smell different odors at the start of the trial, and after six months of smell training.
...snip...
This means that smell training can help the smell pathways to start to regenerate and recover.
We also found that older people in particular were more likely to start to recover their sense of smell.
And that the biggest improvements happened in those that had lost the most amount of smell function in the first place."

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My daughter has had COVID multiple times. She had radiation treatment for uterine cancer in 2018, so her immune system is considered "compromised". Her first bout of Covid was in 2020, and put her in bed and off work for a month. When she recovered, she couldn't stand the smell of *lettuce*, it made her nauseous. Like someone at the next table in a restaurant having a salad could make her queasy. After like 6 months of that, it got a bit better and it was only *iceberg lettuce* that bothered her. I honestly never thought lettuce had a distinct smell, much less different types having different smells. She's at the point now where she can eat romaine, and can sit at a table with others eating iceberg, but that's it.

Nuff Said